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Yafang Shao 5802fe9cfc mm/readahead: fix large folio support in async readahead 
commit 158cdce87c upstream.

When testing large folio support with XFS on our servers, we observed that
only a few large folios are mapped when reading large files via mmap.
After a thorough analysis, I identified it was caused by the
`/sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb` setting.  On our test servers, this
parameter is set to 128KB.  After I tune it to 2MB, the large folio can
work as expected.  However, I believe the large folio behavior should not
be dependent on the value of read_ahead_kb.  It would be more robust if
the kernel can automatically adopt to it.

With /sys/block/*/queue/read_ahead_kb set to 128KB and performing a
sequential read on a 1GB file using MADV_HUGEPAGE, the differences in
/proc/meminfo are as follows:

- before this patch
  FileHugePages:     18432 kB
  FilePmdMapped:      4096 kB

- after this patch
  FileHugePages:   1067008 kB
  FilePmdMapped:   1048576 kB

This shows that after applying the patch, the entire 1GB file is mapped to
huge pages.  The stable list is CCed, as without this patch, large folios
don't function optimally in the readahead path.

It's worth noting that if read_ahead_kb is set to a larger value that
isn't aligned with huge page sizes (e.g., 4MB + 128KB), it may still fail
to map to hugepages.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241108141710.9721-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241206083025.3478-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Fixes: 4687fdbb80 ("mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings")
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-01-09 13:33:54 +01:00
arch ARC: build: Try to guess GCC variant of cross compiler 2025-01-09 13:33:47 +01:00
block block: lift bio_is_zone_append to bio.h 2025-01-09 13:33:32 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: ecdsa - Avoid signed integer overflow on signature decoding 2024-12-14 20:03:36 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: display: adi,adv7533: Drop single lane support 2025-01-09 13:33:51 +01:00
drivers gve: trigger RX NAPI instead of TX NAPI in gve_xsk_wakeup 2025-01-09 13:33:54 +01:00
fs fs/proc/task_mmu: fix pagemap flags with PMD THP entries on 32bit 2025-01-09 13:33:53 +01:00
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kernel fgraph: Add READ_ONCE() when accessing fgraph_array[] 2025-01-09 13:33:52 +01:00
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mm mm/readahead: fix large folio support in async readahead 2025-01-09 13:33:54 +01:00
net net/sctp: Prevent autoclose integer overflow in sctp_association_init() 2025-01-09 13:33:51 +01:00
rust rust: kbuild: set bindgen's Rust target version 2024-12-19 18:13:22 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix a resource leak 2024-12-14 20:03:46 +01:00
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usr initramfs: shorten cmd_initfs in usr/Makefile 2024-07-16 01:07:52 +09:00
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README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.